WinBlitz3D Lite Version Now Available

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Kev(Posted 2006) [#1]
Hi Guys

The free lite version of winblitz3d can be downloaded. The lite versions is the complete version with the restriction of window/gadget creation this is limited to 50 items.

WinBlitz3D Lite

This will require a valid email address to obtain a link to the lite version and the required unlock key/code. theses will be delivered by email.

please enjoy, any help or support can be on found over on winblitz3d's forums.

kev


Kev(Posted 2006) [#2]
just to clarify email will be sent using auto-responder, so please check you email once you have requested the lite version.

kev


Mikele(Posted 2006) [#3]
Thank you!


Stevie G(Posted 2006) [#4]
[EDIT] All is fine now .. thank you!

Cheers
Stevie


Kev(Posted 2006) [#5]
its for 2d or 3d it enables full windows gui intergation.

kev


jfk EO-11110(Posted 2006) [#6]
Didn't try it yet, but I had a look on the html code of your mailer page (for whatever reason :o))

There is php code in your html page, displayed in my browser
...
<!-- DO NOT change ANY of the php sections -->
<?php
$ipi = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$httprefi = getenv ("HTTP_REFERER");
$httpagenti = getenv ("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
?>

<input type="hidden" name="ip" value="<?php echo $ipi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpref" value="<?php echo $httprefi ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="httpagent" value="<?php echo $httpagenti ?>" />
...

It seems to me you will never receive the users IP, Referrer and Browser name, as it was supposed to be. I suggest to rename the page to lite.php (assuming your server supports php pages), or make sure .html pages won't contain php code. Cause you may accidently publish things like passwords etc this way.

I think I'll dl this later, still got an old version in duty. You may put it to the toolbox for permanent presence. Thanks for sharing your work.


Kev(Posted 2006) [#7]
thanks jfk the script was put together very quickly, i will sort this some time today. ive already added it to the toolbox section.

kev


Chroma(Posted 2006) [#8]
Pardon me but, what is WinBlitz3D?


Kev(Posted 2006) [#9]
WinBlitz3D enables blitz3d to fully interate to the windows api, consider winblitz3d like a blitzplus .dll thats hooks into blitz3d but with many more features.

kev


Picklesworth(Posted 2006) [#10]
It lets you do a really nice, standard GUI ;)
This means that you get all the features that Windows's built in GUI offers and people have come to expect, such as:
-Copy and past to and from text boxes.
-Caps lock means capital letters, while Shift with Caps Lock means lower case.
-Highlight text with Shift.
-End jumps to end of line, Home jumps to beginning of line.
-Alt+first letter in window menu title opens window menu.


...Err, etc :)


Edit:
Hmm... beaten to it by Kev.
I took that long to post this?!


Ricky Smith(Posted 2006) [#11]
Just tried it out - works very well , good examples and documentation- nice work !


Kev(Posted 2006) [#12]
thanks guys,

i do think the documentation needs more work though and more examples. i see many downloads and no reports of bugs? things must be stable :)

kev


Panno(Posted 2006) [#13]
works fine here !!!


JoeGr(Posted 2006) [#14]
Thanks! It works well here too. I do have one small request though. Could you fix the open/save file dialogues so that they maintain focus if the main application window is clicked? I don't know much about this api stuff but I think that it may be a case of making the file dialogue window a 'child' of the application window or something along those lines.

This may or may not help (scroll down to my post):
http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=916


Kev(Posted 2006) [#15]
thanks joe. This was completly missed i will add this feature when support for multi file selection is added.

Also an idea would to give a memory pointer to internal structs, this would enable more control for advance users to setup the requesters and gadgets/items before there created, although this would only be available to licensed users.

kev


JoeGr(Posted 2006) [#16]
Do you know yet how much the full version will cost?


Kev(Posted 2006) [#17]
15 uk pounds

This enables full access to latest updates/bug fixes, and a commercial license with no limitations.

kev


Chroma(Posted 2006) [#18]
Kev...do you know how to change the Font used in the Tabber Tabs?


Panno(Posted 2006) [#19]
removed


Kev(Posted 2006) [#20]
Chroma, its possable using the wb3d_openfont and wb3d_usefont command.

tabber = WB3D_CreateTabber(230,45,220,150,window,0)
tabber_font = WB3D_OpenFont("arial",8,8,0,0,0) 
WB3D_Usefont tabber,tabber_font 


kev


Chroma(Posted 2006) [#21]
Kev, I'm finding WinBlitz3D very useful. Are there some user docs available? Then I wouldn't have to bug you at all. :)


Kev(Posted 2006) [#22]
docs are located in the zip file under WinBlitz3D_Lite\docs\

these are just temp while i wait of the final docs from one of the beta testers.

kev


Chroma(Posted 2006) [#23]
Excellent! Guess I overlooked it in all my enthusiasm. Great work here Kev...saves me tremendous amout of development time.


Kev(Posted 2006) [#24]
No problems chroma im just happy its out there and being used. I have the final docs and just finalizing the full version and hope to have it available over the coming days.

kev


Chroma(Posted 2006) [#25]
Would be cool if there was a media viewer in the file requester so you could preview an image or 3d model before you load it. Not sure if there's something like that available in the normal windows gui...probably would have to be a custom job.


Picklesworth(Posted 2006) [#26]
Would be cool if there was a media viewer in the file requester so you could preview an image or 3d model before you load it. Not sure if there's something like that available in the normal windows gui...probably would have to be a custom job.
Probably would have to be a custom job.
I have found that a bit of playing with window styles on ListBoxes or ListViews can get it looking a bit like Explorer, but I haven't done any system-wide file browsers; just a file browser with previews that check in a single folder, so I could get away with something pretty simple. (And I dropped the icons approach).

Still, play around and it will work :)
Just use Winblitz's DrawImage stuff (forget the name of the function...) into a panel attached to a window, and check that panel for events if you plan to have the previewer interactive...


Kev(Posted 2006) [#27]
yes this would be a custom requester, like Mr. Picklesworth said or use the blitz image to winblitz3d icons to display the preview.

kev